The exhibition CHANGING IDEAS marked the tenth anniversary of the “Class for Ideas in Graphic Design and Advertising” of the University of Applied Arts Vienna by attracting festival visitors to the Museumsquartier. Or, more specifically, to the designforum, where they were eloquently guided through the exhibition by the students themselves. Dedicated to the idea as a means of transformation, the show was impressively diverse in terms of subject, media, and execution. Hence, visitors could wander from project to project, immersing themselves in a world of completely contrasting and innovative ideas. One example of this was the obstacle app, which draws the attention of digital hikers to the presence and history of memorial stones in the pavement as they wander through the city on their smartphone screens. Similarly memorable was the Butt Rug — a doormat hand-woven from incorrectly discarded cigarette butts. And also the typography project “Twins”, a font, whose symbols express the subtle difference between Standard and Austrian German. The exhibition was accompanied by events and a series of lectures in which experts offered food for thought on the various subjects. Find out more at: klassefuerideen.at.

Project support: Matthias Spaetgens, Eva Buchheim, Paulus Dreibholz, Manuela Hausmann, Andreas Putz, Lisa Schultz, and Sven Ingmar Thies

With works by Magdalena Akantisz, Katrin Bichler, Julia Bichler, Verena Blöchl, Lip Comarella, Monika Dabrowska, Raffaele Dalla Casa, Nora Delugan, Toni Eisner, Mirko Fina, Franz Frommann, Sabrina Gangl, Gerald Geier, Liana Gfrerer, Katharina Götzendorfer, David Hampel, Katja Hasenöhrl, Kathrin Heimel, Katharina Herzog, Julia Hofmann, Christina Hosiner, Dominika Huber, Jeffrey Jianfan Guan, Angelika Kessler, Martin Klaffensteiner, Judith Kroisleitner, Doris Lang, Daniela Leitner, David Leitner, Tsvetelina Lyubenova, Yoanna Lyubenova, Albert David Mitringer, Katharina Mohn, Franz Mühringer, Michael Niedermair, Patrick Pichler, Johanna Philipp, Julia Presslauer, Bernhard Poppe, Katja Protchenko, Balãzs Pusztai, Lucia Quiqueran-Beaujeu, Roland Radschopf, Tobias Raschbacher, Lenka Reschenbach, Elias Riedmann, Leo-Constantin Scheichenost, Lars Schrage, Lisa Schultz, Christoph Schütz, Tessa Sima, Paulina Slivkova, Daniela Stenzenberger, Margareta Stern, Katharina Tschoch, Nikolay Uzunov, and Sarah Weinberger.